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The 1992 presidential election saw several different campaign innovations that brought candidates closer to citizens. One such innovation was the production of campaign books by the candidates. These candidate platforms signal the continuing dominance of candidates and the decline of parties as the grounding elements of presidential campaigns. Many analysts argue that such independent campaigning is detrimental to democracy. We disagree. Candidate platforms indicate positive development in presidential politics. More detailed than party platforms, they provide information to voters in a way that conforms to the realities of modern campaigning. In addition, they help candidates challenge existing voter impressions based upon party stereotypes. Finally, candidate platforms provide for direct accountability, allowing citizens to blame or credit presidents for their actions. This may make the job of president more dificult, but it also makes what candidates say in campaigns more meaningful.

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00409.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Institutional reforms are expected to influence the behavior of the institution's members. In this paper we examine how institutional changes affected the desirability of different career paths and the behavior associated with those career options for members serving in the 84th through 99th Congresses. Our findings reveal an increase in the number of members pursuing leadership and higher office careers. Additionally, the findings indicate that institutional changes have had unique consequences for members pursuing different career paths.

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00410.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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This article takes a closer look at the New York Times coverage of the Supreme Court from 1966 to 1984 in order build on the work done by Gregory Caldeira which found that the amount of Times coverage increased public confidence in the Court. In addition, it studies national television news coverage of the Court. By content analyzing both for the direction (positive, neutral, or negative) and focus (the Court or personnel), the assumption that coverage is “extraordinarily positive” is challenged and dismissed. Speculation is offered as to why volume of coverage coincides with public confidence when that coverage is predominantly neut

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00411.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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The contacting of public oficials is a major form of political participation. Using data from the 1987 NORC General Social Survey, this study expands the scope of contacting research by examining the determinants of contacting behavior at the state and national level as well as at the local level. Overall contacting at the local level is determined by SES, efficacy, awareness, and political ties. At the extralocal level, race, ideology (liberalism), and personal economic dissatisfaction are also significant factors. When contactors are divided into general‐referent and particularized‐referent contactors, we find that SES is an important determinant for general but not for particularized contact

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00412.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Studies of the causes of ethnic conflict are unlikely to lead to ethnic harmony, since societal malfunctions usually come too late in the historical process for interventive strategies. Instead, there must be a vision of the conditions for ethnic peace. Some fifteen such visions exist—military hegemonism, assimilationism, nationalism, capitalism, separatism, economic interdependence theory, egalitarianism, democratization theory, amalgamationism, integrationism, consociational democracy, Gramscian hegemonism, communitarianism, political mobilization theoy, and nonviolence theory. Some of the approaches are to be discarded on moral grounds, several have been tried but failed, whereas others remain to be tested empiricall

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00413.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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The argument in this essay is that far from being the Machiavellian/Platonists as their harsher critics have described them, Strauss and his students are in fact defenders of a particular kind of liberal‐democracy. Unfortunately, however, the Straussian theorization of such a regime is both theoretically flawed, and practically impotent, especially in the American liberal context, leaving both him and his students with what could perhaps be called a “Calhoun probl

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00414.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper examines the political controversy surrounding the building of Camp Sister Spirit, a feminist cultural and educational retreat for women, on 120 acres of land in rural Jones County, Mississippi. The intensity of the resulting confrontation with individuals and groups in nearby communities quickly raised the scope of conflict and attracted national media and political attention, including intervention by the Clinton administration and hearings by the Subcommittee on Civil Rights of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. In discussing this ongoing controversy, we locate Camp Sister Spirit in the history of the search for alternative community and analyze the nature and rhetoric of the conflict between the camp and some of the citizens of the small town of Ovett, Mississippi, as a complex moment in the tension between the competing languages and value systems of individualism and community in the American political culture.

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00415.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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As a result of the 1992 elections, women now make up 20.4 percent of the elected representatives in United States state legislatures nationwide, yet women comprise only 13 percent of southern legislators. The literature supports several theories as to why women in the South are less likely to seek and win office than women outside the South. What has yet to be examined, however; is what difference these factors make in the kind of woman that is ultimately successful in winning a legislative seat in a southern state. Based on an original survey and a representative sample of over 600 women serving during the 1991–1992 legislative session, we find that southern women legislators are in fact significantly different from non‐southern women legislators in both attitudes and behaviors; that regionalism exerts a powerful influence on women state legislators' attitudes toward themselves, their job, and their behavior once elected. These findings are important in exploring the diversity of women serving at the state level, particularly as their numbers continue to g

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00416.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper reports the results of research examining the issue of non‐response bias to mailed surveys. The hypothesis for this experitnent was that lower response rates of black citizens to mail questionnaires could be overcome, in part, by using black sponsoring institutions. A city was selected which contained both a traditionally black and a traditionally white state supported university. Two samples of randomly chosen registered voters from selected precincts received the same mailed survey. The samples consisted of equal numbers of black and white registered voters. Some precincts were racially segregated (all black or all white) and others integrated and were from middle and working class neighborhoods. If a total design method is used (in contrast to a single shot survey design) institutional afiliation does not affect response rates of black or white citizens. The research helps to elucidate empirically the complexity of the response rate hypothesis as it applies to rac

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00417.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Gary W. Selnow.High‐Tech Campaigns: Computer Technology in Political Communication.Penny M. Miller.Kentucky Politics and Government: Do We Stand United?John P. Frendreis and Raymond Tatalovich.The Modern Presidency and Economic Policy.Dermot Keogh and Michael H. Haltzel, eds.Norrhern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation.William James Booth, Patrick James, and Hudson Meadwell, eds.Politics and Rationality.Melvin I. Urofsky.Letting Go: Death, Dying&The Law.Charles Lusane.African Americans at the Crossroads: The Restructuring of Black Leadership and the 1992 Election

ISSN:0730-2177    

DOI:10.1111/j.1747-1346.1995.tb00418.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY